I am bit lost with these problems... I tried my older laptop (Lenovo T60), also running aptosid, up to date, but 32-bit. There everything worked, so I assumed it could be a 64-bit thing.

Running from the live CD (on a flash drive with 64bit kernel), I could also use partitionmanager (with USB drives plugged in) with no problem in my new laptop (Lenovo T510, that had the original problem).

I restarted my laptop with my HD installation and did a DU, but I haven't seen any update that could affect this problem. But now partitionmanager and gparted work fine! (????)

cfdisk, with the new laptop never works, giving the error above, unless I specify a device different from the HD. (I *think* that this did not work before, but I am not sure...)

The HD with the "problems" above was partitioned with aptosid's Live CD's partitionmanager... I wonder what caused them.

Anyway, I have no idea what is going on... But I am a bit worried if it will work next time I need it.

Thanks to all,

Luis

devil

Post subject:Posted: 03.12.2010, 17:41

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(c)fdisk is picky about clen partitioning.
what you have there is the opposite of that.

greetz
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finotti

Post subject:Posted: 03.12.2010, 19:03

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devil wrote:

(c)fdisk is picky about clen partitioning.
what you have there is the opposite of that.

I understand that... I just wish I knew what caused it so that it would not happen again. I guess I will use cfdisk instead of partitionmanager in my next install.

Thanks,

Luis

x-un-i

Post subject:Posted: 05.12.2010, 18:09

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finotti wrote:

... I just wish I knew what caused it so that it would not happen again.

Cause: you have created the extended partition 4 after created sda3 and probably shrinking the /dev/sda2 partition.

Thank you very much for pointing it out! Now that I remember it, I was trying to just create primary partitions (since it was the default), but in the last one I could not as I had already reached the limit... So I created an extended one. Can you tell me (or send a link) when should I use primary and when should I use extended?

Thanks again,

Luis

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Post subject:Posted: 06.12.2010, 21:43

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linux dont care about primary, extended and logical ones ( created on a extended one) or whatever.

Some other OS are picky with that and not able to boot if they are not using a marked bootable primary partition.